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World Athletics Reveals the Olympic Marathon Standards for LA28
Men will need 2:05:00 and women 2:22:20 to qualify on time for Los Angeles, both quicker than the Olympic records the marathon champions set in Paris.
Elite Runners
Yomif Kejelcha’s Half-Marathon World Record Is Now Official
World Athletics approved his 56:51 from Buenos Aires 78 days after the race, less than half as long as Jacob Kiplimo waited for the record Kejelcha broke.
Elite Runners
Josh Kerr’s Mile World Record Is Now Official
World Athletics ratified the 3:42.66 he ran in London on July 18, which took 0.47 seconds off the mark Hicham El Guerrouj set in Rome in 1999.
Track and Field
We Re-Ran the 2026 New York City Marathon, Age Graded. A 46-Year-Old Won.
All 61,000 finishers restarted together, each moving at the speed of their age-graded score. Watch it play out, then find yourself in it.
Race Coverage
We Mapped Every One of the 61,060 Runners in the New York City Marathon
Twelve interactive maps rebuild the race minute by minute, from the crowds on the bridges to the runners who passed thousands and the push to finish under four hours.
Michael Doyle
ARD Investigation Estimates at Least 10 Million Children in Sport Have Been Doped
WADA’s own study counted 1,416 minors who tested positive over more than a decade, and athletics was one of the two sports reported most often to its confidential hotline.
Elite Runners
Russian Marathoner Who Raced Berlin in Crocs Runs the Porto Marathon in Jeans
Iskander Yadgarov, a 2:14 marathoner and two-time Moscow Marathon winner, ran 2:28:29 in denim on Sunday and is claiming a world record, following his 2:30:03 in Crocs at the Berlin Marathon in September.
Stephanie Case Becomes the First Woman to Run 100 Miles in Antarctica
The Canadian ultrarunner finished the Antarctic Ice Ultra in 17:31:39, less than half an hour behind Yusheng Ni, who cut more than five hours off his own continental record.
Trail and Ultras
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